Who is Dr. Frances Malone?

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Hi, this is Dr. Francis Malone, founder of the intuitive parents

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collective. I've been working with children and their families

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to provide holistic relationship based medical care throughout my

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career. This podcast is for parents interested in

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consciously raising naturally Healthy Kids. Here, we will dive

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into topics that spanned childhood, and parenting as well

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as hosting exciting guests. So whenever you find yourself at

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the end of her parenting rope, tune into the intuitive parents

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podcast to get new ideas about making parenting fun.

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thrilled to be here and to be beginning conversations about

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who I am and what I have to bring to this community. I have

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had a long history, and that just happens when you get kind

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of long in the tooth, I guess. I grew up in a household where my

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parents did not rely on medications too much as a

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background to mostly just healthy foods and lots of

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outside time. And But then, when I hit my college years, I

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actually was dramatically ill in a number of different ways, and

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interfaced with Western medicine, in in life saving ways

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at the time, and that were positive. And then also in

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negative ways where my chronic epstein barr, or chronic mano

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was minimized for a year. And I was told that it was all in my

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head, which is really difficult to hear when you are a type a

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student who is pushing themselves in academics and

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failing, when you've never had that experience before. So I

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would say that, having had those flip side experiences of Western

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medicine, and then my own, I was already in the biology, pre med

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track at the time and my own love of the human body nature,

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how the world works, just got fueled by needing to understand

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a little bit more. That whole system. And so I went to school,

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I actually had a biology degree and a minor in neuroscience, and

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then a nursing degree, a BSN, and a master's in nursing, which

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is as a nurse, pediatric nurse practitioner from University of

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Penn. So I have a really solid, great education. And then I was

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afforded the luxury of attending the University of Washington,

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which is the premier nursing research school in the country

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for bio behavioral nursing. And there I got all of the ideas and

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structures and the previous theoretical stuff sort of opened

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up and splayed for you like PhD programs are intended to do and

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then reformulated right. And University of Washington has an

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incredible strength of creating research driven nurses. And so I

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graduated from there and worked at Seattle Children's in the

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solid organ transplant program, developing the intestinal

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failure program with my colleague, Simon horseman and

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hurry, right. So that was incredible opportunities to

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really stretch myself in research and research projects

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in both of those places in the University of Washington and

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then Seattle Children's. And also to work utilizing the

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premium way that you would need to use Western medicine which is

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an organ transplant, because there really isn't another

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opportunity for many of us children, other than moving

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forward with new technology in medicine. But the way I raised

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my own three children during that time, so I have three boys

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and a steps on. The way I raised them was with a foundation of

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nutrition and Outdoor time and respect and giving them freedom

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and autonomy as much as i was able at their different ages.

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And that experience really honed for me some of the places where

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I have a natural trust or trust in the natural therapeutics,

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because I was able to use those for my own kids, and my circle

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of friends, children, and to see how well supported a child can

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be without really leaning too heavily on

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pharmaceuticals. And then I started my own pediatric

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practice in 2016, on Bainbridge Island. And that has been

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probably another of the harder things I've done in my life

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because I really had to dig deep within myself to acknowledge

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that I had the skills and I have the ability to figure out how to

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create a practice on my own and to be a solo practitioner when

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that type of practice is slowly dying away. And then I've had

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the joy of caring for, you know, hundreds of other people's

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children who bring light and brightness to my days on an

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hourly basis. So that's how we got to where we are right now.

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Hi, this is Francis. Thank you for tuning in to today's episode

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of the intuitive parents podcast. We are thrilled to have

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you here and hope that you enjoyed it. Please share our

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francis.com. Take care. I look forward to working with you.